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Bringing a Hammer to Bear on PsychoceramicsWed, 21 Feb 2018 11:06:04 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on The Mythical Sir Arthur Edwin Turner-Thomas by crackpotwatchhttps://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/the-mythical-sir-arthur-edwin-turner-thomas/#comment-8665
Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:06:04 +0000http://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-8665Glad to be of help. Update: he had a run-in with HMRC over his re-launched Wicked Wang activities … and won!
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Wed, 21 Feb 2018 06:52:08 +0000http://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-8658I had assumed there might be some truth to the RootsWeb site, until I started to notice contradictions, and Arthur seems to write “with a plumb in his mouth”. A great deal of work has gone into compiling this information and it has a “ring of truth” about it. However, I will now be very cautious about using the detailed “facts”. Because of the “plumb in his mouth” in his writing I attempted to find out who he was and discovered this site.
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Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:46:33 +0000http://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/?p=18920#comment-8633Caltech did not defend even Feynman when he clashed with an obvious fraudster. Mahogany ‘plague’, nice pun. He thinks that he is too good for the crackpot journals. Don’t forget that he is a whole university, not an isolated nut.
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Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:35:20 +0000http://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/?p=18920#comment-8632Yep, there’s quazillions of them. CPW will remember Beall’s list and the scandalously craven way his uni refused to stand by him when the predatory OA maffia mounted their hate campaign.

Now, seeing as Ron blows a 1000 or so every year on a mahogany plague in his honour, I really do wonder why he does not park his sh*t in one of those journals – costs about the same, no questions asked. Once his latest crackpottery is “officially published” his Wiki main page can be updated with the latest madness.

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Tue, 20 Feb 2018 11:01:10 +0000http://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/?p=18920#comment-8631If he really wants an article, one of his better-employed gang-members usually gets it for him, certainly contrary to their library rules.
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Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:58:00 +0000http://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/?p=18920#comment-8630There are always exceptions: New Journal of Physics is very good. PlosOne is OK … and wide in scope, but would the layman be able to spot them among the hundreds of predatory journals with ‘better’ (Progress in Physics, Journal of Nuclear Physics) names. Would Ron? Santilli is currently trying to sell portable neutron sources for at least $0.5M each. Do they work? A research article says that do; an article written by his friends in a dodgy OA journal. That ‘proof’ has already got into the tabloids as a ‘scientists say …’ news item. How does one unspread that butter?
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Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:45:03 +0000http://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/?p=18920#comment-8629“All of the reputable ones are behind pay walls” you don’t think much of, say, PNAS then (don’t worry few physicists do) – but anyway, to comply with OA regulations (after all, the tax payer funds to research, why should they not be able to access the fruits) all unis now have a repository where “last MS versions before acceptance” are stored.

So: cheapskate Ron can access the latest research.

Tree-falls-in-the-woods type question: does OA do the general public any good? Well, if I read a piece of poor science journalism (there’s a pleonasm) but there is at least a link, I can get to the proper story. So that’s gotta be good.

On the other hand, terabytes of stuff they have no hope in hell to ever understand is only going to be as much gristle to the mill of the loony bunch.

Not to mention cherrypicking… What have we wrought…

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Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:05:15 +0000http://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/?p=18920#comment-8628With all the academic affiliations that Ron airs, surely at least one of those institutions offers “alumnus memberships” to its library for online access to the catalogue and the ability to download papers from the electronic journals to which it subscribes, for a small sum. My own university offers this for $40 pa, the price of a good dinner.
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Sun, 18 Feb 2018 18:58:34 +0000http://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/?p=18918#comment-8619This is all news to us. We thought that agoraphobia was keeping him safely indoors these days.
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Sun, 18 Feb 2018 16:54:47 +0000http://crackpotwatch.wordpress.com/?p=18918#comment-8617A bit off track, but we hear that Mr Evans (not “Professor”) had an encounter with a local Farm Bull on one of his rambles. He says it was within a few feet, with an Angus Bull. He should be very cautious as any breed of bull can be very dangerous. Generally the Scottish Angus is a placid breed, so Mr Evans was seemingly lucky, but one local farmer keeps a herd of modified bred Canadian Angus. They are slightly bigger and not so placid. The greatest risk would be to confront a polled or de-horned black Limousin Bull as they can be killers and appear to look like an Angus. Mr Evans should ask the farmer what breed of bull is he taking walks with. As a boy his father had one field and one cow, so he needs educating in the rules of countryside safety, as do many townies from places like New York. One big advantage for Mr Evans would be to take a “pooper scooper” with him on his walks. He could collect the waste from the bull – we know what that is called – he could use it for his next You Tube Film to show what solid bull***t looks like compared to ultra bogus scientific bull***t. What says you Crackpotwatch? By the way “bustach” is the correct spelling in Welsh for a bullock or steer not a bull. A bull is “tarw” from a Latin root word Mr Evans.
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